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...Inside the Mind of a Madman? "I intend to start killing people," wrote Theodore Kaczynski, the suspected Unabomber, in his diary. What can the defense say to that...
Behind that placid exterior, however, is a stubborn defiance that could spell disaster for his defense. This week, as jury selection got under way in Sacramento, Calif., for his trial on federal charges of killing two men and seriously wounding two others with package bombs, Kaczynski's defense strategy is in turmoil. The first public sign of trouble was the Harvard graduate's abrupt refusal to be examined by prosecution psychiatrists. But Time has learned that he initially resisted examination by even his own doctors. This stance might be endorsed by the "Unabomber Manifesto," which denounces anyone who attempts...
Historically, defendants who claim insanity or mental disease in federal trials rarely succeed. But if the jury in this case is allowed to hear details about paranoid schizophrenia, they may see some disturbing parallels with Kaczynski's life. For example, psychiatrists say true schizophrenics often resist diagnosis. "They don't like to think of themselves as mentally ill," says Dr. Ira Glick, a professor of psychiatry at Stanford. "They'd think something else caused their problems, like bad parenting or bad government or too many drugs--anything but being labeled crazy." Kaczynski has lashed out at both his parents...
...mystery illness that sent Kaczynski to the hospital when he was only 10 months old could take on new significance. Some researchers believe that schizophrenia could come from a virus that strikes pregnant mothers and infants, causing brain damage that usually doesn't become fully apparent until the teens or early 20s. Kaczynski's family has said he was always an antisocial child and that his behavior got worse as he got older. At 26, he abruptly resigned from a prestigious teaching post at the University of California, Berkeley, and dropped out of society. The first Unabom attack occurred three...
From their first contact with the FBI, the family warned that Kaczynski had severe mental problems. And three months after his arrest on April 3, 1996, at his mountainside cabin outside Lincoln, Mont., family attorney Anthony Bisceglie cited Kaczynski's mental illness as a reason the government should not seek the death penalty. "In his correspondence, Ted projects his own feelings of anger, depression and powerlessness onto society at large--a society of which he has never really been a member," Bisceglie wrote lead prosecutor Robert Cleary. "He blames these ill effects on a wide variety of external factors, including...